The 10 most expensive places to raise a family in the U.S. – MarketWatch

In some spots in this country, it costs parents well into six figures just to eke by.The amount that a two-parent, two-child family needs just to pay the bills (but not have money left over for savings) ranges from about $50,000 to more than $100,000 depending on where a family lives, according to data from the nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank the Economic Policy Institute.